Example sentences of "to john the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tolkien himself thought that this bright ray was the Old English word far Venus , here applied to John the Baptist , herald of the Christ . |
| 2 | The restoration of sight was made a general activity of Jesus in his answer to John the Baptiser , who was imprisoned by Herod , but seemed to have had doubts about whether Jesus was the expected one . |
| 3 | Of course , this group at Ephesus must have heard something about the Holy Spirit if they listened at all attentively to John the Baptist , but they did not realise that the promised Spirit was available for them ; that he could make a difference to their lives . |
| 4 | I knew Jesus was related to John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary , but could not quite remember how . |
| 5 | Let me go to er where I expected to go now to John the County Planning Officer . |
| 6 | The pope did not hesitate to point out to John the advantages of seeing Otto as emperor and to Philip Augustus , the threat that a Staufen emperor would present to France if Germany was united with Sicily . |
| 7 | The pun on " " wood " " in its sole surviving modern sense makes the imputed insanity of the carpenter — a would-be second Noah , the shipwright — adhere to John the more firmly . |
| 8 | When the Reeve likens himself to an " " open-ers " " he associates himself with Nicholas in the tale just passed , and can thus be attributed with the same wry self-reflection as the Miller shows in attaching himself to John the carpenter . |
| 9 | Erm he erm , he ha he went to John the Baptist to baptize , to ask him to be baptized |